Interesting commentary, I wholeheartedly acquiece,
except for the rap music part. I will admit, the rap
music coming out today sucks, but I am still and
always will be down with hip-hop (although white kids
trying to LIVE the music rather than LISTEN to the
music is quite comical, almost buffoonish). Hell, even
the rap music I listen to is from the 90's. I am
eclectic with my musical tastes and am accused of
still living in the early 90's, as I still always
listen to Nirvana, Alice, Soundgarden,
Mudhoney...although there is some good music out right
now. Queens of the Stone Age, A Perfect Circle, And
you will know us by the trail of dead, Porcupine
Tree...I guess it's just different because you have to
kinda dig to find that music, or at least the good
music; where back then alternative radio on the FM
dial was actually okay to listen to. How I do miss the
time of flannel and melancholy melody...You're right,
gen x'ers need to start cranking out some good music
to show these youths what how music is supposed to
be...wait a minute...isn't that what the baby boomers
said about us???

Enjoyed your observations...I feel the exact same way.

Peace.

Erac Rodriguez

--- metalbird91@... wrote:

>
>
>
> Hello. It's 2005. Rap, gospel, and country music
> dominate the Billboard music charts. Our society is
> vastly different from the way it was 10-15 years
> ago. We are much more conservative. Grunge is long
> gone, and the only rock that does appear on the
> airwaves is flooded with pop influences. Even the
> city of Seattle, the "birthplace" of grunge, seems
> to have become "Frasierized," that is, more
> button-downed, affluent, and less of what is was 15
> years ago. Once again, I know it is 2005, but now
> that all of the original people who were a part of
> this movement are all grown up and raising families,
> have they themselves transformed into the faceless
> society that we have today?
> I know that we all have full-time careers or jobs,
> but is there still a spark of something? Is that
> same thing that broke us away from the cheesy Winger
> and Bon Jovi rock still there? What will break us
> out of this disgusting phase of music that we have
> now? I guess MTV is on the pathway to
> self-destruction, and VH1 is closely following.
> Maybe that is why the youths are so dumb: because
> all of the junk reality tv shows on MTV have
> influenced them, rather than the thoughtful music of
> 15 years ago. White suburban kids listen to rap in
> their SUVs, and our clothing fashions are hitting a
> sorry state. College campuses, once areas of
> progressive styles and thought, now are more like
> bastions of conformity, and teenagers are anything
> but angry or rebellious. Instead, they are the
> obnoxious, giggly kind of ditzes that we all used to
> poke fun of just a few years ago. Polo shirts are
> frighteningly popular. Forget Doc Martins and
> Converse shoes. It's cheap, tacky rubber flip-flops
> that are all the rage. What will it take before
> people actually break out of this mold and dress
> more individualistically? What will it take to get
> rock music back to what it was a decade ago? How
> many more MTVs will there be until people finally
> throw up their hands and say,"Screw all of this!
> Let's play music videos again! That's what MTV was
> originally about!"
> Maybe the Gen-Xers need to start joining bands
> again, and start fixing the music scene. I don't
> know.
> Well, that's my two cents. What do you guys think?
> -Cheryl
>
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